#321 - Mission clues
At the age of ten, he entered the Spirit Void Realm before being weaned.
The Order's female voice announced it throughout the realm.
People naturally couldn't help but discuss it.
It had been several days since they heard news of the ten-year-old, unweaned child; it turned out he had returned to the outside world.
Now, that mischievous kid has come again, and who knows what earth-shattering thing he'll do.
… …
In front of the Archaic Stone Gambling House, people came and went in an endless stream.
Jun Wuxie stood there and heard people discussing it after hearing the Order's female voice announcement.
Some people even sized him up with strange gazes from time to time.
"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen such a stylish young man before?"
Jun Wuxie didn't like the gazes of the crowd. It was as if he had flowers on his face. It was just a piece of torn cloth covering his face; what was so strange about it?
"Tch!"
The crowd curled their lips and gave him a contemptuous look.
They thought, 'Where did this little brat come from, trying to act profound, tearing off a corner of his clothes as a mask, so out of place.'
"Humph!"
Jun Wuxie put his hands behind his back, raised his head, and walked into the Archaic Stone Gambling House.
He tried his best to act like a child should.
The Archaic Stone Gambling House was very spacious inside, divided into many areas.
The largest of these was a forest garden, but the trees inside were not very dense, but rather sparse.
Inside the forest garden were trees and pools, and stones of various shapes were placed everywhere.
Many people walked around in the forest garden, back and forth, observing the stones inside from time to time, whispering to each other, and discussing in low voices.
"It seems that these are the original spirit stones."
He heard people talking, and many people were commenting on these stones.
The original spirit stones in this forest garden were also distinguished.
In the area on the left, each original spirit stone was of considerable size, all uniformly priced. One original spirit stone actually cost several thousand spirit coins!
In the middle area, the original spirit stones there were individually priced, of varying sizes, and the prices ranged from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
In the area on the right, the original spirit stones there faintly revealed a sense of extremely ancient times. The surfaces were weathered beyond recognition, with holes and pits.
But their prices could be described as expensive.
The lowest price required 500,000 spirit coins per piece, and the most common ones were around two to three million.
Among them, the prices of more than a dozen original spirit stones were marked at 10 million spirit coins!
Jun Wuxie followed the crowd, walking and watching, and gradually felt that the Longevity Lock on his body actually reacted again. It was trembling gently.
He was startled and carefully observed every plant, tree, and person here.
The Longevity Lock would not react for no reason.
There was likely a clue here related to the old man's daughter.
However, he observed for a long time, but he had no clue where the clue was.
In the center of the forest garden, there was a two-meter-high platform, and someone was cutting stones on it.
Many people were watching.
As the stone cutter continued to peel off the stone skin, the surrounding crowd became nervous.
Jun Wuxie was also watching quietly. It was his first time seeing stone cutting, and he couldn't miss this opportunity.
He immediately released his Battle Intent Perception, slowly penetrating into the original spirit stone being peeled.
However, he found that there seemed to be a mysterious power in the original spirit stone, which greatly weakened his perception, making it impossible for the Battle Intent Perception to clearly understand the internal situation of the original spirit stone.
The original spirit stone was cut smaller and smaller, and finally, in the disappointed sighs of the crowd, nothing was cut out.
However, Jun Wuxie memorized the feeling of detecting this kind of original spirit stone.
He knew that the original spirit stones that gave him this feeling under the Battle Intent Perception did not contain spirit crystal stones. This was considered an accumulation of experience.
One after another, people continued to buy original spirit stones and cut stones in public.
At the beginning, the stone cutters bought relatively cheap raw stones in the area on the left. Later, some people bought more expensive original spirit stones from the middle area.
Jun Wuxie carefully observed those stone cutters. Among them, there was a young man and several middle-aged men who seemed to have special techniques.
When they selected stones, they would gently tap the raw stone with their fingers, listen to the sound with their ears, and they would also gently rub the surface of the raw stone with their palms, and special runes faintly appeared between their palms and fingers.
"It turns out they are from the Mei family of original spirit masters!"
Someone seemed to recognize the origin of those people, and suddenly exclaimed, causing the audience to boil!
"What, these are from the Mei family?"
"I've only heard of it before, but I've never seen the demeanor of the Mei family. Today is really my lucky day!"
"Look, this is an original spirit master. This method of selecting stones is really superb!"
"Is that handsome young master the young master of the Mei family?"
"He is truly a dragon among men!"
"With them taking action, there will be something exciting to watch today. They will definitely cut out high-grade spirit crystal stones!"
… …
People were all talking about it, praising the Mei family.
Jun Wuxie quietly watched the people of the Mei family.
That young man was indeed handsome, giving people a sense of gentleness and refinement.
His method of selecting stones was very fast. He only touched the original stone slightly with his hand and continued to walk to the next original stone.
However, in just a short quarter of an hour, he selected an original spirit stone.
The original spirit stone was irregularly shaped, about the size of a washbasin, priced at 498,888 spirit coins!
Jun Wuxie's attention had been on the young man. Every time the young man selected a stone, his Battle Intent Perception would also quietly penetrate into the original spirit stone.
The feeling and aura that the Battle Intent Perception fed back from each original spirit stone were different.
At the beginning, Jun Wuxie couldn't determine which feeling could indicate that the original spirit stone contained spirit crystal stones.
He sensed a very weak, peculiar fluctuation in several of the original stones.
This fluctuation was relatively the most obvious in the original stone selected by the Mei family youth.
"It seems that this special fluctuation should be one of the bases for proving that there are spirit crystal stones… …"
Although he didn't do it himself, the Battle Intent Perception was too magical, allowing him to gain a lot of experience in observation.
The Mei family youth took the original stone he had selected and stepped onto the stone cutting platform.
Before long, the two middle-aged men who came with him had also selected their stones.
The people in the forest garden all gathered around, waiting for the stone cutting with expectant faces.
As the stone skin peeled off, everyone's heartbeats accelerated, and everyone opened their eyes wide.
When a little mottled green appeared in the broken stone skin, people exclaimed.
"It's showing green!"
"Oh my god, it's showing green after peeling off such a thin layer. There must be high-quality spirit crystal stones inside. The spiritual energy is so rich that it has penetrated the stone skin and soaked the stone!"
"As expected of the young master of the Mei family, the original spirit technique has been truly passed down, and it can be described as consummately perfect!"
People exclaimed, their eyes were red, and they were too envious.
As the stone skin was peeled off layer by layer, the green inside became more and more obvious.
When the last layer of stone skin fell off, strands of tender green light bloomed, bright and dazzling!
"Middle-grade spirit crystal stone!"
"My goodness, such a large middle-grade spirit crystal stone, it must weigh more than ten pounds, worth hundreds of millions of spirit coins!"
"It seems that the luck is not bad today." The Mei family's young master held up the spirit crystal stone, looked at the beautiful women of the Archaic Stone Gambling House, and said, "I have offended you today, causing your Archaic Stone Gambling House to lose money. I am very sorry."
A leading woman said with a smile, "Young Master Mei is too serious. The Mei family's original spirit technique is indeed amazing."
"Overpraise, overpraise."
Young Master Mei said with a smile, then walked towards the area on the right, about to go in to select stones.
"Young Master Mei, please wait." The woman stopped him and said, "This area will not be open to the public today."
"Oh? Why is that?"
Young Master Mei looked at the woman in confusion.
The woman smiled faintly and said, "Tonight, a batch of original spirit stones from the Chaotic Ancient Mine Cave will arrive at my Archaic Stone Gambling House. Tomorrow, this batch of original spirit stones will enter this area, and all the stone gamblers in the world can come to select stones."
"What? Chaotic Ancient Mine Cave?"
As soon as this remark came out, everyone present was shocked, and even the young master of the Mei family and the two middle-aged men beside him were shocked and excited.
"Is this true?" The young master of the Mei family exclaimed, "It is rumored that the Chaotic Ancient Mine Cave is filled with chaotic gas all year round, making it difficult to enter at all. Only once every dozens or hundreds of years, there is a gap when the chaotic gas dissipates, and the time is extremely short! The probability of cutting out high-grade spirit crystal stones from the original spirit stones inside is more than ten times higher than ordinary original spirit stones!"
"Of course it's true." The woman nodded and said, "We will inform the world of this news. Tomorrow, stone gamblers from the Star Sea, Grandmaster, Sovereign King, and Sovereign Emperor regions will come here to gamble on stones."
Jun Wuxie heard this news in the crowd and was also a little surprised.
It was the first time he had heard of the Chaotic Ancient Mine Cave.
Judging from the reaction of the people, the original spirit stones from the Chaotic Ancient Mine Cave were extraordinary.
While thinking, he came to the area on the right and observed the original spirit stones inside.
However, he found that the Longevity Lock on his body seemed to be reacting more and more strongly!
"What's going on?"
He was surprised and uncertain, pondered slightly, and tried to move away from the stone selection area on the right. As a result, he found that the reaction of the Longevity Lock gradually weakened, and when he approached that area again, the reaction of the Longevity Lock would increase with the shortening of the distance!
"So… … so the clue is actually here?"
He was shocked that the clue to the task was actually in this stone selection area!
Could it be said that the clue is hidden in a certain original spirit stone in this area?
